by Kenny Stancil "He has to come out, explicitly, unequivocally, for overturning the filibuster in order to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act."
by Brett Wilkins "The refusal to prosecute us just proves what we already knew: These critical infrastructure laws are unconstitutional. We have the right to resist and we will not be deterred."
by Jake Johnson One reporter described a new mailer, which falsely accuses Turner of opposing universal healthcare and a higher minimum wage, as "wildly dishonest."
by Julia Conley "All of this will only grow more and more urgent and dangerous as the world grows hotter, countries in the Global South become more unstable, and more folks head north."
by Kenny Stancil “Instead of funding non-polluting alternatives, it throws public money at expensive, unproven technologies that will allow the fossil fuel industry to continue poisoning frontline communities and trashing the planet."
by Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years.
by Sarah Anderson, Bob Lord A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams—and their heirs—to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.
by Thom Hartmann If the filibuster can't be done away with or turned into a "Jimmy Stewart filibuster," then Congress has the obligation to Act on the "Nuclear Option."
by Jeffrey C. Isaac These state legislators are doing something brave and necessary on behalf of all people in the United States. They are exiting, for now, so that their counterparts in Washington can regain their backbones.
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